Lessons From Mass-Testing for Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Long-Term Care Facilities for the Elderly in San Francisco.

COVID-19 coronavirus elderly health care worker infection control mass testing skilled nursing facility

Journal

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
ISSN: 1537-6591
Titre abrégé: Clin Infect Dis
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9203213

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 06 2021
Historique:
received: 29 05 2020
accepted: 16 07 2020
pubmed: 21 7 2020
medline: 4 6 2021
entrez: 21 7 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Coronavirus disease 2019 can cause significant mortality in the elderly in long-term care facilities (LTCF). We describe 4 LTCF outbreaks where mass testing identified a high proportion of asymptomatic infections (4%-41% in healthcare workers and 20%-75% in residents), indicating that symptom-based screening alone is insufficient for monitoring for COVID-19 transmission.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32687150
pii: 5873783
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1020
pmc: PMC7454340
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

2018-2020

Investigateurs

Allen-Contreras Robin (AC)
Alonso Sabrina (A)
Copeland Nicole (C)
Corona Adam (C)
Lee George (L)
Lemen Kaylene (L)
Ongpin Melissa (O)
Watson Lisa (W)
Zarate Sheilah (Z)

Informations de copyright

© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

Auteurs

Janice K Louie (JK)

San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA.
University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.

Hyman M Scott (HM)

San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA.
University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.

Amie DuBois (A)

San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA.

Natalya Sturtz (N)

San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA.

Wendy Lu (W)

San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA.

Juliet Stoltey (J)

San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA.
University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.

Godfred Masinde (G)

San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA.

Stephanie Cohen (S)

San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA.
University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.

Darpun Sachdev (D)

San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA.

Susan Philip (S)

San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA.
University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.

Naveena Bobba (N)

San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA.

Tomas Aragon (T)

San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA.
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.

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